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unfortunate
English
Etymology
un- +? fortunate
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??tj?n?t/, /?n?f??t???n?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??t???n?t/
- Hyphenation: un?for?tu?nate
Adjective
unfortunate (comparative more unfortunate, superlative most unfortunate)
- not favored by fortune
- Synonym: unsuccessful
- Antonym: fortunate
- marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
- Synonym: unlucky
- Antonyms: fortunate, lucky
Translations
Derived terms
- unfortunately
See also
- deplorable
- regrettable
- infelicitous
- unsuitable
Noun
unfortunate (plural unfortunates)
- An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
Translations
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chap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?æp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
Shortened from chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th century English.
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (dated outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
- (Britain, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act 3
- If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act 3
- (Southern US) A child.
Derived terms
- chapess
- chappie
- chappo
Descendants
- Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
Verb
chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- 1591, John Lyly, Endymion
- whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
- (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
Derived terms
- chapped
- chapstick
Translations
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
Derived terms
- chappy
Etymology 3
From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Song
- His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Related terms
- chop
Translations
Etymology 4
Shortening
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
See also
- chaps
Anagrams
- CHPA, HCAP, PHAC, Pach
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
chap m (plural chappen, diminutive chappie n)
- Alternative spelling of sjap.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xap/
Verb
chap
- second-person singular imperative of chapa?
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ap/
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Old English *?eappian, *?ieppan, from Proto-Germanic *kapp-, *kap- (“to chop; cut; split”), like also English chop. The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppare (“to behead”), from Latin caput (“head”) and influenced by Old French couper (“to strike”).
Akin to Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), Middle Low German koppen (“to cut off, lop, poll”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *?ippian (attested in for?ippian (“to cut off”)).
Verb
chap
- (transitive, intransitive) To knock (on) or strike.
References
Semai
Alternative forms
- cap
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cap ~ *caap (“to seize”). Cognate with Old Khmer cap (“to seize, catch”), Kuy ca?p (“to catch, hold”).
Verb
chap
- to hold
- to catch; to seize
- to touch
Synonyms
- (to hold): pegak
- (to touch): lèèw
Derived terms
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